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Shelli Nicole

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In a collage split three ways, a gay femme poses with coconut water for the camera, a masc person with tattoos poses with their hands behind their head in a colorful button down shirt beneath the message "stay strong and protect your energy," and a stud laughs into the wind underneath a sign that reads "I dropped the ball"

Vapid Fluff

FYP: I Know Why Y’all Love Coconut Water So Much

11 hours ago 1 Comment

Image shows a bouquet of blush colored roses and fresh eucalyptus

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Snow Day Silence

3 days ago 3 Comments

A three-way collage: In the first photo, a queer person with pixie blonde hair poses on her knees in thigh high boots, in the second two Black femmes with long hair hold hands and stare lovingly in each other's eyes, in the third a Black queer person with long dreadlocks and a white t-shirt with a rainbow design bites their thumb and looks into the camera.

Vapid Fluff

FYP: I’ll Probably Still Kiss You Even If You Don’t Sound like Young MA

1 week ago 1 Comment

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Good News

1 week ago 4 Comments

A three-fold collage of: one person with short cropped hair wondering how their femme girlfriend fits so much in their post, two studs complementing each other on their attractiveness, and one person with short cropped almost style drinking an iced coffee with sunglasses outside.

Vapid Fluff

FYP: Stud 4 Stud Love Is Actually All I Care About

2 weeks ago 6 Comments

A bright purple sign says "I have a crush on you" in Neon lights against a black brick wall with red accents.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: It’s Just a Little Crush

2 weeks ago 4 Comments

a grid of wet for her products on pastel backgrounds.

Sex + Relationships

Get Into These Valentine’s Day Sex Toy Picks (and Get Your Date Off Valentine’s Weekend)

3 weeks ago No Comments

A three way collage of three different queer humans on TikTok, L to R: a person with long dreadlocks and a facemark stares off quizzically to the side, then a lesbian in a visor smiles and makes a joke, last a person with arm tattoos and long black hair strikes a pose on the floor with their sleeves rolled up, so that you can see the tattoos.

Vapid Fluff

FYP: Your New Weekly Queer Babe TikTok Round-Up!

3 weeks ago 16 Comments

a pattern of illustrated candy hearts with words like cute, dirty, sweet, and sexy.

Sex + Relationships

QUIZ: What Kind of Queer Valentine’s Date Are You?

3 weeks ago 11 Comments

Black Furures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham

Books

The Drop: Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew’s “Black Futures” Is a Triumphant Celebration of Black Voices and Black Innovation

3 weeks ago 1 Comment

Image shows a Cabin far off in the woods. Mountains are in the background and it is sitting right off a lake - snow covers everything

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Take Me There

3 weeks ago 2 Comments

grid of sex toys from wet for her on a pastel background

Sex + Relationships

Take Care of Yourself with 9 Toys Under $50 and $75

4 weeks ago 3 Comments

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: What About Your Friends?

1 month ago 1 Comment

Image shows necklace that reads Shelli with the edges of a scarf around it.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Say My Name

1 month ago 3 Comments

Billie Holiday (Andra Day) leans in close to kiss Tallulah Bankhead (Natasha Lyonne) in the new film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday," which will depict the singers bisexuality.

Film

“The United States vs. Billie Holiday” Trailer: Andra Day Stuns as the Black Bisexual Legend

1 month ago 8 Comments

A selfie of the author, who has long braided hair and is in a flannel shirt against a purple background.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: You’re Like — Really Pretty

2 months ago 5 Comments

A middle finger is up in an orange shadow of a window pane against a blank wall.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Stop Playin’ with me.

2 months ago 4 Comments

A collage of images of Queen Charlotte from the post.

Television

Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte is Black and Queer IRL, and Here’s Every Hairstyle She Wore in Season 1

2 months ago 5 Comments

Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Film

The Drop: The Unapologetic Black Queerness of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

2 months ago 4 Comments

Image shows a view of trees outside from inside a train car. There is a leg in the frame, wearing jeans and sneakers in the shot as well.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Home Sweet Home

2 months ago 6 Comments

A neon pink sign says "Dance Again" against a bar wall with empty bottle everywhere.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: A Little Less Conversation

2 months ago 4 Comments

A collage of "Happiest Season" fashion: Kristen Stewart as Abby in a silver blazer, along side to models also wearing silver blazers. Then Aubrey Plaza as Riley in a black dress, alongside two other models in black dresses.

Fashion/Style
Film

Style Thief: Happiest Season Is More Than Just Blazers (But Also We Found That Blazer)

2 months ago 5 Comments

Books

“Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year: Volume 5” Brings an Expansive Imagination of Lesbian Sex to Your Shelf

2 months ago 2 Comments

photo of shelli in a bed surrounded by a computer, notebooks and a calender. The photo shows her legs and a white slip.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Too Much of Nothing

2 months ago 14 Comments

Collage of a variety of Wet for Her sex toys

Sex + Relationships

Wet for Her for You: A 2020 Holiday Gift Guide

3 months ago 3 Comments

A rose-tinted photograph of a leg tangled between pink blankets and sheets. Light sunlight cascades through the window.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Wanna Wake Up Together?

3 months ago 9 Comments

Arts + Pop Culture

The Drop: SassyBlack Makes Space for Black Women to Feel and Get Funky

3 months ago 2 Comments

An image showing a glass filled with ice coffee and an ice cream bar. Next to it is a full calender and the background is a city street through the view of a window.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Remember Me

3 months ago 8 Comments

Aubrey Plaza and Kristen Stewart in Happiest Season

Film

“Happiest Season” Roundtable: Yikes, Harper! Wooowwww, Aubrey Plaza!

3 months ago 66 Comments

Vanessa Williams in A Diva's Christmas Carol

Straddleverse

Home Alone for the Holigays: Watch “A Diva’s Christmas Carol” With Shelli

3 months ago 1 Comment

A collage of Vanessa Hudgens' outfits in The Princess Switch 2: Switched Again

Film

Oh, You’re a Princess Switch 2? That’s Not What Your Outfit Says

3 months ago 8 Comments

photo of a hand, fingernails painted red. A ring cigar holder is on one finger and it is holding a pink and gold cigarette.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Attention Please

3 months ago 4 Comments

Jenny and Gabrielle pose for a photo in Union Square in A New York Christmas Wedding

Fashion/Style
Film

My Coming Out As Told Through The Outfits In “A New York Christmas Wedding”

3 months ago 5 Comments

A photography of pink and red pillows across a bed, with the sunlight coming across in pink streaks out of the top right corner.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Sittin’ Up in My Room

3 months ago 4 Comments

A soft photo of pink roses in a bouquet. The filter is styled to look like an old school film photo.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe with Me: Show Your Homies You Care

4 months ago 5 Comments

"Sex and the City" plays on Shell's laptop in her kitchen, which has a pink countertop.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: You Can Meditate and Still Be Mad

4 months ago 7 Comments

Elle Lorraine and Lena Waithe in Bad Hair

Film

Hulu’s “Bad Hair” Skewers Racist Beauty Standards in a Film That’s Half Horror, Half Satire

4 months ago 1 Comment

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Singing Our Own Praises

4 months ago 7 Comments

First Person

Treat Your Gorgeous Ass to a Spa Day

4 months ago 2 Comments

A stylized photograph of Shelli's living room to look like it was taken with a polaroid camera in the 1990s. "Hocus Pocus" is playing on the television.

Society + Culture

Come Vibe With Me: Sunday Cozy Sunday

4 months ago 23 Comments

series of three illustrations of anthropomorphized sex toys - a musician clit ring, a sexy enby Enby vibrator, and a confident, tattoo'd boxer harness and dildo kit.

Sex + Relationships

Take Me Home Tonight: Which Wet for Her Toy Are You Swiping Right On?

4 months ago 6 Comments

A collage of three iPhone screens, side-by-side, against a pastel Orange background. Everything feels neat, serene, and calm.

The Scene

Hear Me Out, Extreme iPhone Minimalism Should Be the New Gay Agenda

5 months ago 17 Comments

Still from the short film Tender by Felicia Pride. Two Black women are sitting on a couch, one of them is sitting cross-legged and smoking a joint, the other is at the edge of the couch speaking.

Film

Find Yourself In The Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival

6 months ago 4 Comments

a triptych featuring three queer people in sexy situations - frame one is a girl laying back with her arms behind her head and a book on her chest, frame two is a person on their knees, holding up a puzzle piece with their butt in the air, frame 3 is two hands with painted fingernails, one of the hands has on a finger extender

Sex + Relationships

Love After Lockdown: 7 Hot Dates to Make Things IRL with Your Pandemic Crush Post-Quarantine

6 months ago 6 Comments

Sam Jay on stage in her Netflix stand-up special 3: In The Morning

Television

Sam Jay’s Netflix Stand-Up Special Is Half Hilarious, Half Disappointing

6 months ago 23 Comments

A collage of three TV shows from Shelli's list. Left to Right: Daria and Jodie from Daria, Denise and Jaleesa and Maggie from Different World, and Samantha from Bewitched.

Television

My Top 10 Television Shows: Shelli Nicole, a Babe Who Loves Brits, Naughty Bits, and Witches

7 months ago 9 Comments

Arts + Pop Culture
Society + Culture

You Need to Listen to Bad Queers Podcast, Trust Us

7 months ago 8 Comments

Music

8 Music and Crystal Pairings To Celebrate Taurus Season

10 months ago No Comments

Fashion/Style

What I Wore to Say Thank You

10 months ago 7 Comments

Television

You Already Like These Shows, You Just Don’t Know It Yet

11 months ago 12 Comments

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